Fleeing Syria

•January 6, 2013

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In this Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013 photo, two Syrian refugee children sit outside their family tent, at Atmeh refugee camp, in the northern Syrian province of Idlib, Syria. This rebel-controlled camp only yards from the border with Turkey houses some 16,000 people displaced by the civil war. But the U.N. and other major aid agencies best equipped to handle such a large-scale relief agency cannot reach them because they are inside Syria. That leaves the job to smaller organizations who can only provide a fraction of the needs. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla)

The number of Syrian children forced to flee their devastated

homeland will on Aug. 23 reach 1 million, half of all the refugees driven

abroad by the conflict, the United Nations said. Another two million Syrian minors are uprooted within their country